Lucas Nussbaum sent his monthly report of DPL activities for December
2013 and the first half of January 2014 [1]. Lucas started public
discussions on several topics, such as evaluation criteria for trusted
organisations [2] and Debian services and Debian infrastructure [3].

Sylvestre Ledru reported on his blog [4] that Debian France has opened
an online shop [5] with plenty of Debian goodies: some are already
familiar as they were sold during FOSDEM or various DebConfs (like the
Swiss army knives [6] or the classic polo shirts [7]), but there are
also brand-new Wheezy-themed t-shirts [8]. The website is only in
French, although an English version might exist in the future.

Neil McGovern announced [9] that Valve [10] wish to express their thanks
to the Debian community for the operating system on which they based
Steam OS [11], a distribution for gamers. They are offering to all
Debian Members and Debian Maintainers a free subscription which provides
access to all past and future Valve produced games. If your
cryptographic key is in the Debian keyring [12] and you are interested
in this offer, send a GPG-signed email to Jo Shields [13].

Daniel Pocock announced [14] the availability of a SIP service [15] for
Debian Members. This service, launched during the mini-DebConf in Paris,
offers real-time audio and video conversation through the browser (with
WebRTC) or a diverse range of traditional softphones, including Empathy,
Jitsi, Lumicall, Linphone, and CSIPSimple.

A phonebooth [16] is available [17] for people wanting to reach Debian Members
through this service. For more information on how to use this service, please
consult the dedicated wiki page [18].

This service has been made possible by a significant effort by the DSA team
over the last few weeks. The Debian project is encouraging other free software
projects, including Debian derivatives, to emulate what Debian has done so that
we can all call each other.

Lucas Nussbaum mentioned on his blog [20] that thanks to Christophe
Siraut, the Debian Maintainer Dashboard [21] (a service based on the
Ultimate Debian Database [22]) now provides RSS feeds for recently added
tasks.

Adam D. Barratt announced that “Wheezy” 7.4 is to be published on
February 8 [23], and “Squeeze” 6.0.9 on February 15 [24]. The NEW queue
for these distributions will be frozen one week before the actual
release date.

You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on
the events section [29] of the Debian wiki, or subscribe to one of our
events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [30],
Netherlands [31], Hispanic America [32], North America [33].

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are
you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a
Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [34]? Send an email
to the Debian Events Team [35].

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
subscribe to the security mailing list [52] (and the separate backports
list [53], and stable updates list [54]) for announcements.

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